* Posts by Andy 43

6 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Sep 2009

dabs.com says sorry for delivery debacle

Andy 43
Megaphone

So who *would* you use?

I have been a long time dabs user and like everyone else on this thread have had a terrible time recently with orders taking much longer, refunds not being posted and customer service generally being non-existent (and let's not talk about trying to access *old* orders, what a joke!).

I used them for the single reason that their returns service was excellent - no questions asked, quick RMA, quick refunds, quick replacement with generally no cost to the customer. It's this last part that is so crucial - if you have some "specialist" company that insists on charging you everytime you send back duff kit (and let's face it it happens a lot) and then takes two weeks to turn around the RMA it makes life miserable.

So who would YOU use, that has decent prices and a decent, cheap RMA policy?

(I guess my money would be on amazon)

Apple files patent for iPad weight loss

Andy 43
Megaphone

Read the article

It says "applied for" NOT "granted".

BP grabs 'oil spill' keywords on Google

Andy 43
Megaphone

Nothing to see here - literally!

Anyone actually try going to www.bp.com/oilspillnews? For me it gives a blank page. Maybe BP just wish it would all go away ...

Ellison wants another failing Bay Area giant

Andy 43
Dead Vulture

30min drive?

When was the last time you managed to get across any of the bridges from redwood shores in less than 30mins? At least an hour is more reasonable, even without traffic.

McNealy's inflatable 'blimp' pleasure-dome angers neighbours

Andy 43
Boffin

It can be loud

A slapshot involves aiming for about in inch of ice under the puck. Because you are essentially hitting an immovable object this causes the stick to flex like a bow, when the stick finally reaches the puck the stick unflexes moving the puck off at extremely high velocity (much higher than field hockey say).

If done right the sound of the stick hitting the ice, but more importantly the sound of the puck hitting the opposite wall can be extremely loud.

Texas Instruments aims lawyers at calculator hackers

Andy 43
Coat

Big

"12.5 512-bit integers" - boy that's a really big number. Amazing the things these distributed computing resources can do these days ...